The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-03


THE annual convention Of the Millers'
National Association began in st. Louis on
the 25th.
AT Rockville, Mo, recently John Vanden-
burgh, charged with an outrage on Jennie
Anderson, was admitted to bail in $4,000
bonds. AS he was leaving the court room
he was shot dead by the two brothers of the
glrl.
A SHERIFF and one OF his posse were
killed recently in a fight with escaped con-
victs in the Flint district, l. 7. One of the
convicts was killed and the other mortally
wounded.
THE recent rains throughout the North
west have eXtinguished most of the forest
fires which have been raging in Wisconsin
and Upper Michigan with such destructive
violence Of late.
THE second annual convention of the Ma
tional Butchers Association met in the
Central Music Hail, Chicago, on the oath,
with Thomas Armour in the chair.
JACOB GRUENBURG has been put on trial
by the Carpenters Union of Chicago for
being an employe of detective agency and
leading workmen into criminal acts.
THE Michigan Senate has passed bill to
fine bucket-shop keepers 1000 and renters
Of premises for such purposes a smaller
amount
1T is expected that call for national
convention Of the building trades journey
men of this country VIII be made soon as
an answer to the recent action of the master
/ builders at Chicago.
The Knights of Labor employees of the
Indianapolis Street Car Company have
been ordered TO quit work TO aid the strik-
4 ers.
A ST. LOUIS paper gives an account of a
! gigantic scheme to consolidate all the cattle
! interests Of the Northwest and form com
| pany which shall control Sl5,O0O,00O worth
of cattle and grazing lands. 1t seems to
have originated with the Wyoming Stock
! Association of CHEYENNE.
/ Rev. FATHER RYAN has been summoned
to attend the Dublin Bankruptcy Court to
testify in the MOroney case.
The National Butchers Association held
a grand barbecue at Cheltenham beach,
near Chicago the other day, feeding 10000
| persons free from 80 beeves and 100 lambs.
PBoPLE who had policies in the old Fargo
/ ID. T.) Insurance Company held a meeting
| recently to investigate the condition of the
| company. II was alleged that the company
had assets of s., 900 TO pay liabilities OF
! SI25, 900. 1t was also alleged that Secretary
| Lowell, Of Chicago, had made away with
100000 belonging to the company.
The street car stables at the old Brighton
Station, Cincinnati, burned early on the
morning of the 9th. Great difficulty was
| experienced in rescuing the horses and the
destruction Of property was said to be very
! heavy.
GovERNoR ZULICK, of Arizona, has ISSUED
a quarantine proclamation against the i'm
portation of cattle subject to pleuro-pneu
monia, against New York, Vermont, Penn
sylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Mary
land, District Of Columbia, Virginia Illinois
England, Scotland and the Dominion O.
Canada.
STEPS have been taken by Racine (Wis.
election officers to institute legal proceed
iEgs against Rev. Olympia Brown Wilson
on the charge of attempting to stuff the bal
lot box. Mrs. Wilson is the leader of tn,
woman suffraglsts of Wisconsin.
CoNsIDERABLE excitement was created a
Denver, Col, recently over the death Of tht
trotting stallion J. A. South, who was re
ported to have died from the effects o
poison given him to defeat him in the ? "a
race, for which he was entered. He wa!
owned by Nat Bruen, of Burlington, Iowa
and valued at $4,000.
THREE cases OF smallpox have been dis
covered at Los Angeles, Cal. The victims
were all children.
AT Pavonia, o., recently ten cars con
tanning cattle were totally wrecked ant
two cars containing about 1000 live chick
ems were broken into kindling wood. Tn
loss to the company was about S25, 900.